Category: The Hill

After meetings in London with some of the usual and unusual suspects, one subject dominated the conversations. Unsurprisingly, the subject was President Trump, and the recurring questions were about whether conditions in America are that bad and if and when we will recover.    A talk I gave at the Pilgrim’s Society, a United Kingdom-U.S. group […]

House Republicans released legislation Sunday that would increase Pentagon spending by $150 billion, pushing the total defense budget for fiscal 2025 to more than $1 trillion if passed. The bill, developed by the House and Senate Armed Services committees, includes nearly $25 billion earmarked for President Trump’s long-discussed Golden Dome missile defense initiative, a shield […]

More Americans are now critical of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration than were earlier this year, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. When asked if they “approve or disapprove of the way Elon Musk is handling his job in the Trump administration,” 57 percent said they disapproved “somewhat” or “strongly.” That […]

As April ends, so do the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency. We who watch from the sidelines will conduct our obligatory analyses of how he and the country are doing.  The analyses could fill several books, surely. Trump has been very busy following the Project 2025 playbook and Steve Bannon’s advice to […]

President Trump tore into a number of leading news organizations over polling conducted in recent days showing his favorability with voters dipping. “These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD,” Trump wrote, mentioning polling from The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC and Fox News in a post on his Truth Social website. “They […]

President Trump on Monday will sign an executive order that will direct his administration provide to draw up a list of sanctuary cities that are not complying with federal immigration laws in an effort to crack down on local governments not cooperating with his actions. The order will direct Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland […]

I’m not the most likely defender of Cornell University. For the last 20 years, first as a student activist, and then during a decade as mayor of Ithaca, New York, I have been one of Cornell’s biggest critics. As a former local official, I firmly believe that universities should pay property taxes. When I was […]

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, a new poll finds the Vietnam War remains the least supported conflict of the major American wars of the past century. The Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media poll showed that sentiment is felt even more strongly among those who fought in the war than the general public, with 46 […]

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday called for mass protests against the Trump administration and blasted the “do-nothing Democrats” who have failed to mount a stronger opposition to the Republicans in control of the federal government. “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am […]

Education Secretary Linda McMahon recently referred to artificial intelligence as “A-One,” as if talking about the steak sauce. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins proposed that Americans combat high egg prices by raising chickens in their backyards. Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, is said to have shared classified military action plans on unsecured internet platforms. Incompetence in the Trump Administration is all […]

Canadians are set to go to the polls for their federal election Monday amid a backdrop of tensions with the U.S. over President Trump’s tariff policy and rhetoric about the U.S.’s northern neighbor. In the first few months of his presidency, Trump’s tariff policy has strained relationships with longtime American allies including Canada. Late last […]

White House border czar is expected to address reporters at a briefing on Monday morning. He is expected to address immigration and President Trump’s efforts to secure the border. On Sunday, Homan said parents of children born in the United States are not “immune” from deportation. “Having a U.S. citizen child doesn’t make you immune […]

Since the very start of its invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, Russia’s government has focused a barrage of propaganda on Africa. Western governments have pushed back, while Ukraine is opening its own embassies across the continent to spread its message.   With all this activity, one would expect that the Ukraine conflict would […]

President Trump, a self-proclaimed master dealmaker, is rapidly perfecting another art form during his second term: the “strategic” retreat.  Indeed, despite building his brand as a cutthroat negotiator, Trump is demonstrating a pattern of blinking and reversing himself when the pressure mounts.  Trump’s tendency to totally switch course — whether on tariff policies, firing Federal […]

President Trump’s approval rating slipped to 41 percent in the latest CNN poll, conducted just ahead of the 100-day benchmark of the president’s second term. In the mid-April poll, released Sunday, 41 percent of respondents say they approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 59 percent disapprove. That’s down four points from […]

Former Vice President Harris will jab at President Trump in the keynote address at the Emerge gala on Wednesday, marking her first public remarks since leaving office in January, a source told The Hill. In her remarks, the former vice president, who lost to President Trump in November, is expected to offer pointed criticism of […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the secret voting for two days to help them get to know one another better and find consensus on a candidate before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals […]

Authorities on Sunday arrested a second suspect in the theft of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse at a downtown restaurant in Washington, D.C. U.S. Secret Service Miami Field Office Special Agent in Charge Rafael Barros announced the arrest shortly after the Washington field office confirmed the arrest of the first suspect […]

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration announced long-awaited bans on certain food dyes and added new warnings about sugar in processed foods. Public health advocates cheered. Parents breathed a sigh of relief. But as someone who has spent years reporting on the intersection of federal science, health and regulation, I have a warning: In […]

The U.S. economy is being buffeted by a range of actions — some implemented, others threatened — by President Trump. There is no historical parallel for this. Never has a single American official created so much chaos and imposed so many self-inflicted wounds on the U.S. economy in so short a time. Some of these […]